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1972, The Longest Year in History, Volume 2

By Mahon, Blake Lee

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1972, The Longest Year in History, Volume 2

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In 1972: The Longest Year in History, Volume 2, Blake Lee Mahon plunges the reader into the heart of a world unravelling between May and August of the most pivotal year of the twentieth century. This volume chronicles a season where détente and destruction walked side by side-while Nixon signed arms control treaties in Moscow, American warplanes unleashed the heaviest bombing of the Vietnam War, mining Haiphong Harbor and igniting Operation Linebacker. The global stage was a paradox: superpowers promised peace at the nuclear level while fueling proxy wars below. At the same time, terrorism gained a new vocabulary-the Japanese Red Army and PFLP at Lod Airport, the IRA's Bloody Friday, and impending tragedy in Munich-proving that attention had become the most valuable weapon. The world's leaders negotiated survival in marble halls while cities, airports, and Olympic villages became battlefields of ideology.Yet this was also a season of profound transformation and fragile hope. The first Earth Summit in Stockholm gave voice to the planet itself, inaugurating a global environmental conscience, while Title IX and landmark court rulings redefined justice and equality. Idi Amin's brutal expulsion of Uganda's Asian community revealed how quickly a nation could be remade through cruelty and decree. Above the chaos, machines rose: Venera 8 pierced the violent atmosphere of Venus, and Landsat 1 looked back at Earth, forcing humanity to confront the damage it could no longer deny. And as Munich prepared to welcome the world with glass, hope, and innocence, a darker truth lurked-the world had learned to see everything, but not yet to protect it. This is the story of a year that refused to end, a summer where history did not unfold-it detonated.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
362
Release Date:
2025-11-03
Publication Date:
2025-11-03
Publisher:
BLAKE LEE MAHON
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN13:
9798232414696
Weight:
910 g
Height:
216 cm
Width:
280 cm
Thickness:
20 cm
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